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Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 14: In page 12, line 37, to delete “, and for the preceding year,”.Change of ownership only exempts sites from the levy for the year of change and not, as previously, the preceding year also. Currently a site is exempt for the year preceding its sale and the year of its sale. We believe this is too much and to include the year before the sale is...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 15: In page 14, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“(6) Where the board determines an appeal against a demand was not justified upon completion of the appeal, an additional 0.1 per cent will be applied to the levy for that year based on the existing site market value entered into the registry.”.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:“(2) Any fine resulting from the committing of the offence outlined in section 20(1)# shall be allocated for the purposes of housing provision in the local authority in which the site the fine was accrued from is situated.”.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 17: In page 16, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:"(6) Any fine resulting from the committing of the offences outlined in this section shall be allocated for the purposes of housing provision in the local authority in which the site the fine was accrued from is situated.".

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 18: In page 16, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:"(c) on any local authority owned land in the area on the development of social housing.".This section of the Bill allows the revenue from the levy on local authority land to be spent "on the provision of housing" in the local area. However, it fails to specify that the levy can be used for social housing....

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 19: In page 17, line 8, after "Minister" to insert "with the approval of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht".This amendment would insert a requirement for consultation with the relevant Oireachtas committee.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 20: In page 18, to delete lines 19 to 37, and in page 19, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following:" "(3A) Where a permission which includes conditions referred to in subsection (1) has been granted under section 34 in respect of a development and the basis for the determination of the contribution under subsection (1) has changed where the development is one...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 21: In page 19, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:" "(3AB) The setting of development contributions is a reserve function of the local authorities.".".

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 22: In page 19, to delete lines 33 to 35.This amendment proposes the removal from the Bill of the change that the Minister of State is seeking to make to reduce the social and affordable housing requirement to 10%. Perhaps I will speak in more detail on this matter when we reach the next amendment, which seeks to deal in their totality with the changes that are being...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 23: 23. In page 20, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “33. Section 96 (inserted by section 3 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2002) of the Act of 2000 is deleted.”.I wish to respond now to the Minister of State's previous contribution rather than responding to a section that was relevant only to the 10% social and affordable...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 24: In page 21, line 10, to delete “and profit on those costs”.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Yes.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: We seek to remove this section which allows leasing agreements to be used in place of the provision of social housing under Part V, which we have discussed already. I will not hold up the Minister of State or the House because we are getting to the end of this debate. However, one of the points I meant to make earlier, and I will make it very briefly now, is that I held a public meeting on...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: No.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I wish to raise the issue of the planned increase in the minimum wage, which I suppose was leaked. It is not confirmed yet but we hear the Low Pay Commission, set up recently - we had lengthy debates in this House on that Bill - will recommend a 50 cent an hour increase in the minimum wage. It is interesting that the proposal has had a mixed reaction. Business groups say, wrongly in my...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: It is pointing the way forward for companies which can afford pay increases. I accept there are some small businesses for whom increased labour costs would be difficult.